Wednesday, February 20, 2013

GAMEDAY 57 - vs Mooseheads

SAINT JOHN – Stephen MacAulay returns to Harbour Station
tonight to face his old team.

MacAulay, traded to the Halifax Mooseheads during the
holiday trading period, has 10 goals and eight assists in 17 games with the
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s top team. He’ll be honoured tonight when
his new team faces off against his old team at 7pm.

The 20-year old defensive forward helped Saint John have
plenty of success over the years and now he is doing the same in Halifax. The Mooseheads sit
atop the QMJHL standings with a 46-6-2-1 record for 95 points. They are 13
points ahead of the second-place Rimouski Oceanic with two games in hand.

The Moose have won four straight and are 8-2-0-0 in their
last 10 games. They are also 21-4-1-1 on the road this year.

Halifax is led by their young guns in Jonathan Drouin and
Nathan MacKinnon. Drouin leads the squad in scoring with 82 points in 39 games
while MacKinnon is second with 69 in 41. MacKinnon will not play tonight due to
a knee injury.

Like Saint John the past few years, the Mooseheads are
loaded with stars. Along with MacKinnon and Drouin, their roster also includes
the likes of Martin Frk, Konrad Abeltshauser, Matt Murphy, and Zach Fucale.

Saint John enters play tonight with a 21-34-1-0 record
which is good for fifth in the Telus Maritimes Division and 15th
overall. They are 2-7-1-0 in their last 10 games.

This is the first game of a home-and-home series between
the Dogs and Moose. They meet again on Friday in Halifax.

THE NUMBERS

Halifax

Saint John

Record

46-6-2-1 (1st Maritimes)

21-34-1-0 (5th Maritimes)

Home Record

25-2-1-0

11-17-0-0

Road Record

21-4-1-1

10-17-1-0

Goals For/Game

5.00 (1st)

2.62 (16th)

Goals Against/Game

2.60 (1st)

3.93 (14th)

Shots For/Game

36.10 (2nd)

27.45 (14th)

Shots Against/Game

25.36 (3rd)

35.30 (17th)

Overall PP

28.0% (2nd)

21.7% (10th)

Home PP

31.0% (3rd)

20.5% (12th)

Road PP

24.8% (2nd)

22.9% (5th)

Overall PK

80.2% (6th)

75.6% (15th)

Home PK

81.1% (10th)

77.6% (13th)

Road PK

79.4% (5th)

73.4% (15th)

PIM/GAME

12.7

16.1

Attendance

8,447

3,777

LEADING SCORERSHalifax

Player

GP

Goals

Assists

Points

Jonathan Drouin

39

34

48

82

Nathan MacKinnon

41

28

41

69

Martin Frk

43

25

38

63

Saint John

Player

GP

Goals

Assists

Points

Jakub Izacky

51

18

11

29

Pierre Durepos

33

5

19

24

Stephen Anderson

51

9

11

20

GOALTENDERSHalifax

Goaltender

Record

GAA

SV%

Zach Fucale

37-5-1-1

2.41

0.905

Chris Clarke

9-1-1-0

3.12

0.876

Saint John

Goaltender

Record

GAA

SV%

Sebastien Auger

20-25-1-0

3.31

0.905

Alex Fournier

1-9-0-0

5.67

0.846

LAST GAMES

The Sea Dogs are coming off a 6-2 loss in Charlottetown
on Saturday night. Michael Abbott and Stephen Anderson scored for Saint John
while Alex Fournier allowed five goals on 37 shots in the loss.

The Mooseheads are coming off a 5-2 win in Charlottetown
on Sunday afternoon. Martin Frk, Stephen MacAulay, Brennan Bailey, Jonathan
Drouin, and Brent Andrews scored for the Moose. Zach Fucale made 32 saves in
the win.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

The Sea Dogs are 1-4-0-0 against the Mooseheads this
season while Halifax is 4-0-1-0 against Saint John.

Their last meeting was on January 4 at the Halifax Metro
Centre where the Sea Dogs defeated the Mooseheads 3-2 in overtime. Stephen
MacAulay, Pierre Durepos, and Jakub Izacky had goals for Saint John while
Halifax had markers from Max Lindsay and Stefan Fournier. Sebastien Auger made
43 saves in the win while Zach Fucale made 21 in the loss. This game was played
during the world junior break so the Moose were missing some key offensive
players.

NOTES

Including this game, the Sea Dogs and Mooseheads have
three more meetings this season.

According to the Mooseheads Twitter, they will be without
the services in Nathan MacKinnon, Ryan Falkenham, Trey Lewis, and Brian Lovell
this evening.

Jonathan Drouin is sixth in the league in assists with 48.

Stephen MacAulay and Stefan Fournier are fifth and sixth
in power play goals with 14.

Drouin is second in power play assists with 25.

Drouin is fifth in shorthanded goals with four.

Drouin leads the league in insurance goals with nine.

Drouin, Nathan MacKinnon, and MacKenzie Weegar are all a
league best +37.

OUT OF TOWN

Blainville-Boisbriand at Rimouski - 7:00 PM EST

Shawinigan at Sherbrooke - 7:00 PM EST

NEXT GAME

The Sea Dogs travel to Halifax to face the Mooseheads on
Friday night at 7pm.